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Will you implement an iSCSI SAN?

Will You Implement an iSCSI SAN? Respondents that already have an FC SAN Respondents that do not If so, when? This month, we asked our readers to assess their readiness for iSCSI. They're ready, all right. Overall, just over half (53%) said that yes, in fact, they will implement an iSCSI SAN. For a sizeable bunch of them (37%), it will happen soon--within the next 12 months. Who among them is the most gung ho? By far, those readers that already have a Fibre Channel SAN are more likely to implement iSCSI--60%, compared to only 42% of SAN-less readers. Perhaps they have already learned the value of networked storage?

In his role as director of emerging technologies at the University of Southern California (USC), Mike Lin is responsible for storing and backing up between 50TB to 100TB of data, for faculty and students alike.

The spread of Windows into ever-more serious applications and the growth of data on Windows servers means that more storage managers are attaching Windows hosts to their SANs. Along with that comes the need to decide whether Windows-based storage management software is the way to go.